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Published by the Department of Philosophy of the Faculdade de Filosofia de Braga at the Catholic University of Portugal, the Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia is a periodic publication appearing four times a year with Portuguese as its official language. It is, however, open to the possibility of publishing original texts in other European languages (e.g., English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Galician, or Catalan), having as a policy that at least 50% of its texts be in Portuguese. Although identified with the Christian tradition, the Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia welcomes in its pages a plurality of philosophical perspectives, its only requirement being that the work to be published be of superior quality, reveal scholarly integrity, and observe the recommended methodological guidelines for the formal and scientific presentation of texts.

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Abstract

Visto por uma lente existencial, o filme Fight Club impele-nos a criar um autêntico self. Porém, também nos adverte que a criação de um autêntico self é algo que só podemos fazer por nós mesmos. A definitiva ironia no filme Fight Club é que, num esforço por rejeitar a sociedade e cultivar a individualidade, as pessoas acabam por se conformar a um culto e aos seus ditames. A lição é que a autenticidade é frágil, facilmente esmagada e facilmente rendida. No final do filme, o protagonista, oferece-nos esperança, ainda que seja para nos tornarmos auto-conscientes e lutar contra as forças que nos procuram subjugar. Viewed through an existential lens, Fight Club urges us to create an authentic self, but it also cautions us that the creation of an authentic self is something we can only do for ourselves. The ultimate irony in Fight Club is that in an effort to reject society and cultivate individuality, people end up conforming to a cult and its dictates. The clear lesson is that authenticity is fragile, easily crushed and easily surrendered. By the end of the movie, the protagonist at least offers us hope, though, that we can become self-aware and fight back against the forces that seek to subjugate us.